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EnglishFont: philSTAR.com05/09/2010 – The Philippines can save as much as $210 million per year if Filipinos can do away with their wasteful ways of eating cooked rice. Each Filipino wastes three tablespoons of cooked rice everyday, according to the Department of Agriculture-Philippine Rice Research Institute (DA-PhilRice).
Source: Stabroek News 01/09/2010 – Funds from the PetroCaribe account are used to pay local farmers and millers who supply rice and paddy to Venezuela under the US-multimillion dollar deal, Minister of Agriculture Robert Persaud says.
Source: Commodity online30/08/2010 – As part of its rice recovery scheme, Philippines is to produce at least 500,000 metric tons of paddy rice to narrow the expected production shortfall of unmilled rice. Country’s Agriculture ministry is in the process of validating its figures with the budget for its rice recovery plan during the wet cropping…
Source: Commodity online30/08/2010 – As part of its rice recovery scheme, Philippines is to produce at least 500,000 metric tons of paddy rice to narrow the expected production shortfall of unmilled rice. Country’s Agriculture ministry is in the process of validating its figures with the budget for its rice recovery plan during the wet cropping…
Source: merinews28/08/2010 – Bayer Crop Science, an innovation leader continually striving to introduce technologies beneficial to the Indian farmer. Now, Bayer Crop Science, India and Punjab State Co-operative Supply and Marketing Federation (Markfed) have signed a MoU to collaborate to promote and develop complete package of Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) in Punjab to prevent water depletion caused by present practice of transplanting rice. This…
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek28/08/2010 – The Caribbean region’s largest rice producer says it will start selling the grain to Venezuela.
Source: The Epoch Times27/08/2010 – Black rice was recently discovered to contain more antioxidants than blueberries, which were considered a leading source of antioxidants for a long time. The grain contains anthocyanin antioxidants, similar to those found in blackberries and blueberries, according to a report by scientists at the University of Louisiana published on Thursday.
Source: India Real Time27/08/2010 – Will India keep its ban on non-Basmati rice exports now that devastating floods in Pakistan have sent rice prices up? The United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization estimates Pakistan’s rice exports will fall by a fifth in 2010 to three million tons after floodwaters damaged 14% of the nation’s cropland and wiped out much of…
